Chinese Domain Name System Put into ServiceChina Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC) has recently launched its Chinese Domain Name System (CDNS), which means Internet users can directly visit the website with its URL like "(Chinese Characters).cn", for example, the Ministry of Information Industry at http://信息产业部.cn (信息产业部 means Ministry of Information Industry).Internet surfers can also get accessed to other websites that does not end with ".cn" by entering Chinese characters, so long as they have installed client software provided by CNNIC. In addition, the default suffix of Chinese domain name is ".中国(China)". So once a user has installed the CNNIC client software, he can omit the suffix-".中国(China)". Just typing "信息产业部" at the address place he will then be able to visit the website of Ministry of Information Industry of China. If certain ISP (Internet Service Provider) has installed relevant Chinese domain name Resolving software, users of ISPs can directly use Chinese domain name without resorting to the client software of their own. Many ISPs regard the resolve function as a kind of value-added service, so they actively cooperate with CNNIC to promote and popularize this service. CNNIC will provide three kinds of code formats for each domain name including GBK, BIG5, UTF8 which are respectively used by Chinese mainland, Hong Kong & Taiwan and Win2K users. Internet users can use their local code format conveniently and there is no need to convert characters. This will undoubtedly help lay a good foundation for interchanges between the motherland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. By PD Online staff member Li Yan |
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